[Neweller]

Chester, thank you for your opinion. Many others share similar thoughts as yours and I too was once sold on the same idea. After talking with many owners of Newell's and other model luxury coaches over the years, I've kind of established some other thoughts.

While owning the three different Newell's over the past ten years, I kept running into the same problem as many continue too, and that is availability of obtaining two-stroke diesel engine oil, having some nut mechanic who thinks he knows what hes doing when it comes to some of these older engines, to only screw things up and guess what, at the owners expense.

The older engine mechanics are starting to become a little rare now days and far and few between. During the nineties and early 2000's you could get a company with a ton of know-how like Southern Oregon Diesel to do an later model engine upgrade for around $26,000. For example; this company would take a customers bus-conversion, Wanderlodge or Newell and swap out the old "V" engine for a new inline Cummins.

Bus-conversions for example with an updated engine would almost always sell for more money and sell much quicker with this upgrade compared to one with the old V series engines. Marathon had did many like this. Most nowadays mechanics understand or know these newer engines. I'm not one to say; take out your great running 8v92 and change it, even though I would consider it now with the connection I have recently established.

Personally I have been in a couple of situations where I was stuck having a very long expensive tow to some shop that had enough experience on the older engines. I learned the hard way that I best haul extra two-stroke oil with me.

I just recently spoke with a gentleman that has done hundreds of these conversions over the years who pulls 6 and 8V's out all the time, to upgrade for bus company's. He says he can do the conversion for less money than you will have invested in a rebuild from a good shop. In fact one of the more recent jobs, they removed a 8v92 with only 7000 miles on a beautiful reman in a nice motorcoach to put in a Series 60. The 8v92 was sold very reasonable to another coach owner who was very happy getting a screaming deal on a low mileage two-stroke.

This particular guy I'm talking about can do an upgrade, make all the necessary modification to make a job look like it came out of the factory this way. Another electrical specialist builds a beautiful new wiring harness to complement the new marriage. I have spoken with a large tour bus fleet owner whom states this guy is the real deal and the his company has millions of tested miles with this guys upgraded conversions and best of all a bunch of shops can do maintenance whenever needed. No more engine oil change mistakes and so on......